Miss Carl.....

[bill]

I sure spent a lot of time with her in the GIRL'S bathroom getting pops !!!

[dru lain]

i remember going to her office and informing her that i'd been around my cousin who'd come down with chicken pox.. so i should be sent home immediately! she didn't let me go:( ah the young and the stupid:P it's funny the memories you keep.. bill.. who was that teacher we had in 5th grade in the shacks? the one who Always put on 'desert rose' hand lotion after lunch? she was single i remember.. i'm sure she uses those playtex gloves

[bill]

Druanne,

Please don't hesitate to call me Billy if you want to. I won't even mind being called that at our reunion because that is the only reason I'm allowed there.
I really loved Miss Carl. She told me once many years after elementary school that I was always her favorite child. ( I didn't believe that because she whooped my butt so many times) I was working at "Nabors Gulf Station"...Do you remember that at the corner of Rice avenue and Richmond? They did the corvettes? She came in there and I waited on her and she recognized me. That's when she told me the secret that only she knew and I didn't know. Druanne, you and I always walked to school. Remember??? When she relised who the young man was that was working on her car at the gas pumps, her eyes swelled up with tears, as mine are right now remembering this. She told me that as I was walking to school one morning, during my first days at Pilgrim, I had picked a bunch of flowers. I gave them to Miss Carl. She told me when I was 14 or 15 that I was the first kid at her first assignment as principal that ever gave her flowers!!!! I was ABSOULTLY FLABBERGASTED!! Then.......

NOW.......I understand perfectly....

Druanne...You can call me Billy ANYTIME....my mother still does....

i remember going to her office and informing her that i'd been around my cousin who'd come down with chicken pox.. so i should be sent home immediately! she didn't let me go:( ah the young and the stupid:P it's funny the memories you keep.. bill.. who was that teacher we had in 5th grade in the shacks? the one who Always put on 'desert rose' hand lotion after lunch? she was single i remember.. i'm sure she uses those playtex gloves

[bill]

Druanne,
I believe that was Miss Tucker........she read the book "Johnny Tremain" to us.....Do you remember a girl named Francis Jenkins in or class??? She has reddish hair???

i remember going to her office and informing her that i'd been around my cousin who'd come down with chicken pox.. so i should be sent home immediately! she didn't let me go:( ah the young and the stupid:P it's funny the memories you keep.. bill.. who was that teacher we had in 5th grade in the shacks? the one who Always put on 'desert rose' hand lotion after lunch? she was single i remember.. i'm sure she uses those playtex gloves

[dru lain]

i'm not surprised in the least she told you that bill - and you can drop the anne part.. i always feel like i'm in major trouble when i get called that! i dropped by good ole pilgrim before miss carl retired just to say hi and talk to her.. i was happy to get the chance to do that ... she ruled with an iron glove.. it makes me sad to look at the old neighborhood.. did you ever go pick blueberries in the field kind of across the street?

and i remember nabor's! although i never had a vette:P

[dru lain]

man you've got a good memory! it was her! and i vividly remember listening to her read that after lunch.. i'd take an apple back, eat that, and then put my head down on my desk and sometimes nap.. i remember francis jenkins didn't she wear glasses too? and it was reddish blonde:P